Summary: Written c. 1749 under a sketch of the Rev. Henry Etough drawn by William Mason. First published, ll. 1-2, 5-8, as On Mr. E---'s being ordained and beginning "Such Tophet was--so grum'd the bawling Fiend", in The London Magazine 52 (June 1783), 296. The text, ll. 1-2, 5-8, was also issued on an etching by Michael Tyson of the drawing of Tophet by Mason, 1769.
References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 138, 92; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
Contents: Copy of Tyson's etching with the text, annotated "Gray". Above the sketch is an annotation by William Cole "Mr. Etough of Therfeild in Hartfordshire, obiit 1757", and on verso "Given to me by Mr. Tyson in Nov: 1769. Wm. Cole". Bound in a volume entitled History of King's College Cambridge, vol. IV, XVI, bequeathed by Rev. W. Cole.
Contents: Transcript (6 lines) in an unidentified hand, here beginning "Such Tophet was, so grinned the bawling fiend" and attributed above "By Mr Gray", in a quarto volume of miscellaneous pieces of poetry, entitled "Miscellaneous Poetry" and "presented by Rev. T. Crompton", written in the 18th and 19th centuries, to which the names of the respective authors are assigned.